keypunch
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to punch holes in (a punch card or paper tape), using a keypunch.
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to insert (data) into a computer by means of a keypunch.
to keypunch code numbers.
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“She didn’t have $300 for an abortionist and couldn‘t afford to lose her job as a keypunch operator.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2019
He noted the call had come from Milwaukee's Fifth Congressional District and handed the sheet to a dungaree-clad coed, who took it to a bank of keypunch operators.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secretaries, stenographers, keypunch operators and other clerical employees for the Government often earn more than similar workers in private industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Janis followed this program for five years, working as a keypunch operator, singing occasionally, dropping in and out of three colleges, and drifting to New York and San Francisco.
From Time Magazine Archive
Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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